The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain, 1780-1970 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain, 1780-1970 Book

This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors, anthropologists, as well as personal letters and journals.The sources are arranged into thematic chapters, covering topics such as archetypes of lesbians - cross-dressing women and romantic friends, the making of lesbianism in culture, professional discourse on lesbians, public perceptions of lesbianism and women's own experiences.This book will be a milestone in the publishing of lesbian history, and is set to provoke the impetus for fresh research.Read More

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  • Waterstones

    Drawing on a wide range of diverse source material this important new book discusses the lives of lesbians from the late eighteenth century to the 1970s.

  • Product Description

    Covering a 100 year period, this book looks at women who loved other women, had sex with other women, who cross-dressed and who resisted heterosexuality. It is a search for lesbianism in the past, centering on women's sexual practices and feelings and their deviance from gender role norms of femininity.
    Lesbian History is based on original and contemporary sources, both private and those of public concern including legal cases and journalism. They range from official government publications, professional journals and newspapers to fiction, poetry, personal papers and ephemera. Here is an essential overview of lesbians in history from the end of the nineteenth century through the 1970s when the women's liberation movement began to take hold Lesbian History is a welcome resource that fills the gap in the existing literature.

    Alison Oram and Annmarie Turnbull both teach at Nene College of Higher Education.

  • 0415114853
  • 9780415114851
  • Alison Oram, Annmarie Turnbull
  • 21 June 2001
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • 1
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